A Maryland man faces felony and misdemeanor charges in court this month for allegedly possessing and trying to deposit a forged check at a bank in Alexandria’s Del Ray neighborhood.
The suspect was arrested at the bank in the unit block of Herbert Street on June 16 after the alleged attempt to deposit a check for $11,585 into a friend’s account, according to a recently released search warrant affidavit.
A teller at the bank told the Alexandria Police Department that he or she contacted the account holder business listed on the check, a Maryland-based distributor of wastewater equipment. A company comptroller told the teller that the amount of the check was correct, but the payee information was changed from the actual check, according to the affidavit. The comptroller said that the original check was made out to a company in West Seneca, N.Y…